SUPREME COURT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1203, 12 July 1884, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

Auckland, July 9. In the divorce case, Lamb v. Lamb and Coegrave, the petitioner does dm. intend to proceed with his case. Jii'lge Gillies said he would consider whit action should be takeD. Wellington, July 9 At the Supreme Court to-day, Thomas J. Glew was acquitted of a charge of perjury. Charles HeDry Monektou. who was found guilty of making false representations under the Marriage Act, waa brought np for sentence. His Honor ■aid : -"Prisoner, the scandal which your trial has exposed to view ig one which must make even a h«rden«d profligate bluslt to have occasioned it. At -he present moment you are justly «ti object of disgust. The act of which you have been found guilty, may in toino cases be almost a venal offence, but you stand convinted of having made a lying declaration to advance a vile purpose. I call it a vile purpose becau»e the marringo was, under the circumstance, not'iing elb«but a disgus'iiig kind of prostitution. The institution of maringe is th« corner »tone of society. You have vil fied and degraded it in a w-ay almost unhtard'of, and I feel bound by a Bevere puin.iliiiient to viufiicate the laws which protect it. The sentence is that you be Kept n imprisonment, with hard ulior, foi a period of two years." Alice for a uke offence, vvas sentenced to 18 months.